Shinichi Mochizuki may have solved a 27-year-old problem, but nobody can prove his proof. Getty Images The math world was shaken to its foundation in 2012 when Shinichi Mochizuki released a 500-page ...

Nearly four years after Shinichi Mochizuki unveiled an imposing set of papers that could revolutionize the theory of numbers, other mathematicians have yet to understand his work or agree on its ...

The latest efforts to comprehend a mammoth mathematical proof have ended in failure and confusion. More than three years after it was released, the mathematician behind it is no closer to having his ...

After an eight-year struggle, embattled Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has finally received some validation. His 600-page proof of the abc conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in ...

On Aug. 30, a Japanese mathematician named Shinichi Mochizuki posted four papers to his faculty website at Kyoto University. Rumors had been spreading all summer that Mochizuki was onto something big, ...

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After a saga eight years in the making, a mathematician is finally set to formally publish a proof that rocked number theory and baffled almost everyone who read it – including other mathematicians.

A Japanese entrepreneur is offering to shell out $1 million (140 million yen) to anyone who can finally resolve a deadlock over a proof of a math brainteaser. Nobuo Kawakami, the founder of Dwango Co.

When a top-tier mathematician announced in August that he had proved one of the greatest problems in mathematics, the claim was trumpeted in the New York Times, Nature, Science and the Boston Globe.

This weekend, computer scientist Ted Nelson claimed that mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki was the man behind Bitcoin. See, while the digital currency has moved markets and attracted major investors, ...